Question 1

define the following term:
-Sputnik I

Accepted Answer

Sputnik I was the first artificial Earth

Question 2

define the following term:
-uhuru

Accepted Answer

Uhuru is a Swahili word that means "free

Question 3

define the following term:
-Andy Warhol and Pop Art

Accepted Answer

Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the

Question 4

define the following term:
-Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Accepted Answer

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Be

Question 5

define the following term:
-PLO, al-Fatah, and Yasir Arafat

Accepted Answer

The Palestine Liberation Organization (P

Question 6

define the following term:
-Nikita Khrushchev

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev was a prominent Soviet

Question 7

define the following term:
-Six-Day War

Accepted Answer

The Six-Day War, also known as the June

Question 8

define the following term:
-family allowances

Accepted Answer

Family allowances, also known as child b

Question 9

define the following term:
-Hungarian uprising

Accepted Answer

The Hungarian Uprising, also known as th

Question 10

define the following term:
-Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs

Accepted Answer

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of

Question 11

define the following term:
-EEC/Common Market

Accepted Answer

The European Economic Community (EEC), a

Question 12

The one issue on which the Arab states were united was

Accepted Answer

A) the Suez Canal. 
B) equal sharing in oil revenues. 
C) Palestine. 
D) a sympathy for Communism. 
E) the worship of Allah. 
A) the Suez Canal. 
B) equal sharing in oil revenues. 
C) Palestine. 
D) a sympathy for Communism. 
E) the worship of Allah.

Question 13

Eastern Europe was the first area of disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with

Accepted Answer

A) improved communications between the US and the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war. 
B) the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba. 
C) the United States overthrowing Cuba's Soviet-supported government. 
D) John Kennedy backing down to the threats of Nikita Khrushchev. 
E) Fidel Castro giving up his military authority in the Cuban government, although he retained political control. 
A) improved communications between the US and the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war. 
B) the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba. 
C) the United States overthrowing Cuba's Soviet-supported government. 
D) John Kennedy backing down to the threats of Nikita Khrushchev. 
E) Fidel Castro giving up his military authority in the Cuban government, although he retained political control.

Question 15

Despite World War II's devastating impact on the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, Europe's industrial and agricultural output was 30 percent higher than prewar levels by

Accepted Answer

A) 1947. 
B) 1950. 
C) 1953. 
D) 1956. 
E) 1960. 
A) 1947. 
B) 1950. 
C) 1953. 
D) 1956. 
E) 1960.

Question 16

Discuss the major social changes affecting the status, expectations, and ambitions of women that occurred in Western society form 1945 to 1970.

Accepted Answer

The period from 1945 to 1970 saw signifi

Question 17

France's Fourth Republic collapsed and Charles de Gaulle came to power in 1958 because of disastrous French defeats in Vietnam.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The origins of the Vietnam War, in part, lie in the process of decolonization because

Accepted Answer

A) the division of Vietnam into antagonistic northern and southern states occurred after Vietnamese military forces had defeated the French, former governors of the region. 
B) the North Vietnamese employed mercenary soldiers from various new post-colonial African states in a local war of liberation. 
C) the United Nations, seeking to establish the post-colonial principle of national self-determination, encouraged North Vietnamese radicals to break with the West. 
D) the Japanese, having lost their former empire in the Pacific, now provoked unrest in continental Asia by attempting to achieve hegemony in the region. 
E) the Soviets supported South Vietnam against North Vietnam, because the latter was a threat to Soviet hegemony in Asia. 
A) the division of Vietnam into antagonistic northern and southern states occurred after Vietnamese military forces had defeated the French, former governors of the region. 
B) the North Vietnamese employed mercenary soldiers from various new post-colonial African states in a local war of liberation. 
C) the United Nations, seeking to establish the post-colonial principle of national self-determination, encouraged North Vietnamese radicals to break with the West. 
D) the Japanese, having lost their former empire in the Pacific, now provoked unrest in continental Asia by attempting to achieve hegemony in the region. 
E) the Soviets supported South Vietnam against North Vietnam, because the latter was a threat to Soviet hegemony in Asia.

Question 19

Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is false ?

Accepted Answer

A) The National Insurance Act and National Health Service Act made Britain a welfare state in the 1940s. 
B) Britain suffered from losing its prewar colonial revenues. 
C) By the Suez Canal debacle, Britain was no longer a superpower. 
D) The British economy lagged behind that of several other Western European nations. 
E) The Conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s. 
A) The National Insurance Act and National Health Service Act made Britain a welfare state in the 1940s. 
B) Britain suffered from losing its prewar colonial revenues. 
C) By the Suez Canal debacle, Britain was no longer a superpower. 
D) The British economy lagged behind that of several other Western European nations. 
E) The Conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s.

Question 20

define the following term:
-Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic

Accepted Answer

Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic was a

Exam 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

define the following term: -Sputnik I

define the following term: -uhuru

define the following term: -Andy Warhol and Pop Art

define the following term: -Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

define the following term: -PLO, al-Fatah, and Yasir Arafat

define the following term: -Nikita Khrushchev

define the following term: -Six-Day War

define the following term: -family allowances

define the following term: -Hungarian uprising

define the following term: -Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs

define the following term: -EEC/Common Market

The one issue on which the Arab states were united was

Eastern Europe was the first area of disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with

Despite World War II's devastating impact on the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, Europe's industrial and agricultural output was 30 percent higher than prewar levels by

Discuss the major social changes affecting the status, expectations, and ambitions of women that occurred in Western society form 1945 to 1970.

France's Fourth Republic collapsed and Charles de Gaulle came to power in 1958 because of disastrous French defeats in Vietnam.

The origins of the Vietnam War, in part, lie in the process of decolonization because

Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is false ?

define the following term: -Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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